What puts women off FOSS?
What puts women off FOSS?
Posted Sep 29, 2007 10:31 UTC (Sat) by alankila (guest, #47141)In reply to: What puts women off FOSS? by Clytie
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
There are men who will attack any prominent women that takes an active role.
I imagine it is because such a woman is seen as a threat (by a process I do not quite understand). These are small men: they will not carry out their threats. The only purpose of the threat is to get you to shut up again.
As a check-in with the real world, when was a last time you heard of a software engineer being beaten (or killed) for being a woman or something like that? It is unthinkable and it just doesn't happen.